Dates of residency: Term 4： 8/13~9/7 2024

Kevin Andrew Heslop (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist from Canada. He made his poetry debut in 2021, followed by curatorial work in 2022, directing in 2023, and screenwriting in 2024. His non-fiction debut, The Writing on the Wind’s Wall: Dialogues about ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ will be followed by Craft, Consciousness: Dialogues about the Arts with Guernica Editions in 2026 and 2027 respectively. Kevin is currently based in São Paulo, researching his first feature film—a biopic about Zé Celso—and writing a television series to be shot in Saint Andrew’s, New Brunswick. More information about Kevin’s practice can be found at kevinandrewheslop.com.

During his residency at SAIKONEON, Heslop developed ideas and wrote on the forest stage, worked in the studio, and traveled to sites associated with Matsuo Bashō for research, absorbing insights and sensibilities that could only be gained through time in Japan. Poetry inspired during residency at Saiko will (have) be(-en) published in Kevin’s sophomore collection, here lies the refugee breather who drank a bowl of elsewhere (Biblioasis, 2027).